Persistence is framed through a specific animal model — a Pit Bull attack, which stops only when the dog is effectively killed — as a deliberate stance to adopt toward any serious undertaking: "whatever quest you undertake, adopt a Pit Bull mentality. Don't let anyone or anything stop you." This is paired with a related instruction to stop treating "no" as a stopping condition when pursuing something that matters: politeness norms taught at school ("only at school do you get a gold star for being polite") are named as a specific source of premature compliance with rejection. The environmental half of the strategy is curating who stays close: "if you want to build an empire you need constructive ideas and thoughts... drop [negative people] immediately from your life," on the reasoning that chronic negativity is framed as resentment of others' momentum rather than useful signal — "losers don't like winners." Persistence, in this framing, is as much about removing sources of drag as it is about individual willpower. --- *Source: [[Gang Fit (Part 1)]] (GuruAnaerobic, self-published 2019) — Ch 15 — Unleash the beast*